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Pyotr Pavlensky, who faces prosecution for leaking video of French politician Benjamin Griveaux, could not obtain visa in time for opening of exhibition

Pyotr Pavlensky was born in 1984 in Leningrad. He studied monumental painting at the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design.

Good afternoon from Madrid. Welcome to our first dispatch from mainland Europe 鈥� your curated digest for art and culture in the EU.

The Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles permanently shuttered last year amid layoffs and a bitter union dispute. Take a deep dive into the private museum鈥檚 final days.

In the aftermath of sentencing the exiled Russian artist Petr (AKA Pyotr) Pavlensky on Thursday, I ask myself why is he doing this? Is it for art?

Verdict was handed down in dramatic Paris hearing, which Pavlensky dedicated to the Marquis de Sade

Following a pre-trial hearing in France today, Pyotr Pavlensky鈥攖he Russian dissident artist known for his radical acts of protest, which include nailing his scrotum to Moscow鈥檚 Red Square in 2013鈥攈as been released from detention.

Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhinais has been ordered to do 40 hours of community service stemming from a protest staged at the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) on 20th December. Judge Yulia Mordvina ruled that Alyokhina had 鈥渧iolated the law on public gatherings鈥�.

How times have changed! In the 1980s, during the closing decade of the Soviet Union, Russian dissident artists, emerging on to the world stage under the increasingly benevolent gaze of Mr Gorbachev, were all the rage in the art worlds of the liberal West.

rtists have always held a special place in Russian society. My father, the playwright Alexander Guelman, was well known in the 1970s and was once lauded by Mikhail Gorbachev as the father of perestroika , the movement for reform within the Communist Party. At that time,...

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Oleg Kulik, an artist who was arrested for biting people, joins Pussy Riot and other provocative compatriots in a UK show Oleg Kulik, an artist wh

Art Riot: Post-Soviet Actionism, is a new exhibition dedicated to Post-Soviet Union protest art over the past 25 years. This is a world premiere for p

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Dissident Russian artist Pyotr Pavlensky, known for his radical performance art, was arrested in Paris on charges of arson after he set the facade of one of the branches of the Bank of France on fire early Monday morning, the Moscow Times reports.